{"nrhp_refnum":"93000508","name":"Red Fox Farm","other_names":["VDHR File No. 58-131"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 688 E side, 0.7 mi. S of jct. with VA 695","address_restricted":false,"city":"Skipwith","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"VA","lat":36.71517648850005,"lon":-78.48663351024695,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 230-acre tobacco farm on the east side of SR 688 near Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, with a main house, five log tobacco barns, a pack house, strip house, log cabin, smokehouse, corncrib and commissary, built between about 1886-1887 and the 1920s.","why_significant":"The farm is tied to Robert M. Jeffreys, who bought it in 1888 and introduced profitable flue-cured, bright-leaf tobacco to Mecklenburg County, changing local agriculture. Its buildings form a remarkably complete set of structures showing the world of the middle-class tobacco farmer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","narrative":"Red Fox Farm is a 230-acre tobacco farm near Skipwith in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Its surviving buildings, built between about 1886 and the 1920s, include a one-story frame house, five log tobacco barns, a frame pack house, a log strip house, a log cabin, a smokehouse, a corncrib and a plain frame commissary. Robert M. Jeffreys, who bought the farm in 1888 after moving from Granville County, North Carolina, introduced flue-cured, bright-leaf tobacco here. Within a few years neighboring farmers copied his methods, and bright-leaf replaced the older dark, fire-cured crop as the county's cash crop. None of the buildings is described as an especially fine example of vernacular architecture, but together they form a remarkably complete record of the equipment and daily setting of a middle-class tobacco farm in Southside Virginia between about 1880 and 1940. The commissary is noted as a rare, well-preserved survivor of a once-common building type.","period_of_significance":"c. 1880 to 1940","architect_builder":"Thomas Easley, Robert M. Jeffreys, and R. L. Thomasson (builders of the farm complex); architect/builder field on form states unknown","architectural_style":"No style (vernacular farm buildings)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the smokehouse is used for storage. The log cabin has been stabilized after an aborted 1980s renovation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.801062-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6819/41681905/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93000508.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000508/d48fa4c60d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000508/d48fa4c60d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Fox_Farm_buildings.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Fox_Farm_buildings.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681905","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713119"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/mecklenburg-county/red-fox-farm-93000508/"}